Combined hammer and planer



(No Model.)

C. F. BRENT 8v A. LANG.

COMBINED HAMMER AND PLANER. No. 351,039. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

UNIT STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. BRENT AND ALFRED LANG, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO.

COMBINED HAMMER AND PLANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,039, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed April 23, 1886. Serial No. 199,968. (No model.)

as to be out of the way and not interfere with To all whom it may concern: 40

Be it known that we, Ci-LiRLns F. BRENT the free use of the hammer. and ALFRED LANG, of Mount Vernon, in the The hammer is provided with a tang or county of Knox, in the State of Ohio, have insocket, H,which is adapted to receive the end vented a new and useful Improvement in of the handle (not shown) in a manner well Hammers, of which the following, takenin conunderstood. it projects at right angles to the 45 nection with the accompanying drawings, is a Opening am, so as not to interfere with the opfull, clear, and exact description. eration of the plane. A claw, H, extends The improvement relates to that class of from one end of the hammer-head in the ordi- IO hammer known as a claw-hammer, which nary manner and for the purposes well known is in general use by wood-workers, and by calto mechanics. 5o penters in particular. Having thus described our invention, what In fitting up siding, cornice, and casings, and we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letfor various other work, our improvement is of ters Patent, is

advantage, for in case a board after being 1. The combination, with the hammer-head sawed does not fit it may be planed, and thus having a planingthroat formed therethrough 55 made to iit, by our combined hammer and and provided with 'a tang projecting from a plane, thus avoiding the trouble of carrying side thereof for the reception of the handle, of a plane individually for that purpose. a planing-bit located in said throat, substan- Figure I is a side view of the combined tially as and for the purpose described.

hammer and plane, showing the hole or throat 2. As an improved article of manufacture, 60 for receiving plane bit or knife in the central a combined hammer and plane consisting of part of the hammer. Fig. II is a plan and the hammer-head having a claw at one end, a section through A B, showing more clearly planing-throatot'theusualconstruction formed the throat and the angular position of the bit through its sides for the reception of the planeor kni'l'e. bit, and a tang for securing thehandle thereto 6 The hammer His provided with an open projected from one side at right angles to the ing, at, which extends from side to side, and planing throat, substantially as shown and dethe rear wall of this opening is inclined and scribed.

forms a bed for the bit K, which is secured In testimony whereof we have hereunto thereto by the set-screw The front wall is signed our names, in presence of two attesting straight or at right angles to the sides or ]onwitnesses, at Mount Vernon, in the county of gitudinal center of the hammer. By this con- Knox and, State ol' Ohio. struetion a throat-is formed through the body CHARLES E BRENT.

5 of the hammer lroni side to s1de,\\h.1ch is con ALFRFD I ANG tracted at one end and widened at the other end. The edge of the bit projects through \Vitnesscs: the cont acted end of the throat, and the butt T. P. FREDRIOK,

or heel is located within the widened end, so

HUGH NEAL. 

